9.0% ▼ -31.8%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.2%
- 2016: 11.2%
- 2021: 9.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Mount Cottrell · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Mount Cottrell
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Community involvement has shifted in Mount Cottrell, where 15% of residents now provide unpaid care. This is well above the national figure of 11.9%. While many help others in the home, formal volunteering remains quite low here.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 9% of people in Mount Cottrell volunteer, which is much lower than most similar areas and well below the 14.1% national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
A little more than 15% of people provide unpaid care, which is higher than most areas and well above the national average. However, the 20.8% of people caring for children unpaid is well below the 26.3% seen across Australia.
15.0% ▲ +25.2%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.0%
- 2016: 11.6%
- 2021: 15.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.8% ▼ -1.6%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.1%
- 2016: 20.0%
- 2021: 20.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.1% ▲ +2.5%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.6%
- 2016: 21.2%
- 2021: 20.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did 15 hours or more of unpaid domestic work in the week before the Census.
Defence service
People who served in the Australian Defence Force.
Defence service is less common here than in most other areas, with 1.2% of the population having served, slightly below the national figure of 2.8%.
1.2%
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who have ever served in the Australian Defence Force (currently or previously).
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Community Participation in Mount Cottrell [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21786/mount-cottrell/topic/community